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• Devin N. Morris at AC Institute, New York

  18-07-2017 23:30 via artnews.com
  
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• At Parrish Gala, Agnes Gund Talks $165 M. Lichtenstein Sale, Jeff Koons Leads Tour

  18-07-2017 23:27 via artnews.com
  
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• Tears, laughter, thunder and lightning to celebrate Jenni Lomax’s 26 years at Camden Arts Centre

  18-07-2017 23:00
  
  It was a very special honour for your correspondent to be invited to round off the speeches and declare the toast at the packed party to celebrate the wonderful Jenni Lomax, who is stepping down after 26 years as the director of Camden Arts Centre. Leading the plaudits for one of the most universally loved and admired members of the art world in Londonand way beyondwas Sir Nicholas Serota, with whom Lomax worked as an education officer during the 1980s when he was director of the Whitechapel Ga
  
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• Florence’s famous Gates of Paradise find new home in Kansas City

  18-07-2017 23:00
  
  If not for unexpected morning rain, Kansas City would not be celebrating a major gift: a bronze cast of Lorenzo Ghibertis 15th-century Gates of Paradise. The original gilded doors were made for the east entrance of the baptistery in front of Florence Cathedral by Ghiberti and his workshop from 1425 to 1452. They depict scenes from the Old Testament and their startling virtuoso relieffigures are placed in landscapes or perspectivally rendered architecture to suggest depthinfluenced generations of
  
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• Artists to set up camp in Brooklyn Army Terminal

  18-07-2017 23:00
  
  New York-based artists, designers and artisans will soon have an affordable new place to set up camp: the Brooklyn Army Terminal, a former military supply base built in 1919 along the waterfront in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The Brooklyn-based non-profit ArtBuilt has launched construction work on 50,000 sq. ft of new workspaces on the property, which is owned by the City of New York, as part of a new project, ArtBuilt Brooklyn.The ArtBuilt Brooklyn spaces will provide affordable long-term leas
  
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• New York’s Off Vendome Gallery Will Close

  18-07-2017 20:42 via artnews.com
  
  The gallery, which opened in Chelsea in February 2015, had an impressive run. Read More
  
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• Cauleen Smith, Martine Syms Join CalArts Staff

  18-07-2017 20:38 via artnews.com
  
  The California Institute of Arts in Valencia has added Cauleen Smith and Martine Syms to the staff of its School of Art. Syms will start teaching there in September, while Smith will begin in her new position in January.Both artists … Read More
  
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• At the Art Museum Ticket Office, How Much Is Too Much?

  18-07-2017 20:03 via artnews.com
  
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• Beyond the dot: how Indigenous artists are shaking off stereotypes

  18-07-2017 20:00
  
  Dot painting has dominated the Indigenous art market for decades, but a shift is taking place and the wider art world is starting to noticeFor a long time, the dot painting has been synonymous with Aboriginal art. Emerging out of the remote Northern Territory community of Papunya in the early 1970s, the first dot paintings were produced when art teacher Geoffrey Bardon encouraged his Indigenous students to paint their stories in murals on the school wall.But long before that, circles and dots we
  
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• Monet's UK parliament paintings to feature in Tate Britain exhibition

  18-07-2017 17:45
  
  Works will go on show as part of first major exhibition charting the stories of French impressionists who were ‘exiled’ in BritainSix paintings by Claude Monet featuring the Houses of Parliament will travel to London from the US, France and Germany for the first major exhibition charting the stories of 19th-century French impressionists who sought refuge in Britain.Monet’s gorgeous views of the sun setting through fog over parliament are one of his most highly regarded series o
  
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• Manuela Mozo Named Director of Untitled Art Fair

  18-07-2017 17:07 via artnews.com
  
  The newly created role at the fair, which has editions in Miami Beach and San Francisco, will oversee brand-related and curatorial ventures. Read More
  
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• Tate Impressionist blockbuster reunites six of Monet’s Houses of Parliament pictures

  18-07-2017 16:37
  For an exhibition on the Impressionists in London, Tate will be reassembling six of Monets views of the Houses of Parliament. This is the first time so many from the series have been brought together in Europe since 1973.
   
  The show, Impressionists in London: French Artists in Exile (1870-1904), is due to open at Tate Britain in November and then travel to the Petit Palais in Paris next year. The exhibition will begin with Monet and Pissarro fleeing the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 to come
  
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• Morning Links: Damaged Poussin Paintings Edition

  18-07-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  
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• Depression and radicalisation: images reveal plight of displaced male refugees

  18-07-2017 12:44
  A series of images documenting the plight of male refugees, and the psychological problems they face, are due to go on show in the Education Room at the Saatchi Gallery in London this week (The Lost Men of Syria, 20 July-9 August). The works are by the London-based photojournalist Edward Jonkler, who has chronicled the experiences of men held in refugee camps and asylum centres across the Middle East and Europe.
   
  Jonkler spent time in the former refugee camp in Calais known as the jungle,
  
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• Crowdfunding success makes Quai Branly's garden (wall) grow

  18-07-2017 12:26
  
  The Muse du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in Paris has raised enough money to refresh the distinctive vertical garden wall (le mur vgtal) that covers the Jean Nouvel-designed buildings facade following a successful crowdfunding campaign (the ethnographic museum bagged more than 52,160; the target of 50,000 had to be reached by 15 July). The French botanist Patrick Blanc, who designed the wall in 2004, will renovate the wall with 376 plant species from four continentsreflecting the di
  
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• The Meaning Of Liu Xiaobo

  18-07-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If there is a gene for bluntness, Liu likely had it. In the 1980s, while still a graduate student in Chinese literature, he was already known as a “black horse” for denouncing nearly every contemporary Chinese writer: the literary star Wang Meng was politically slippery; “roots-seeking” writers like Han Shaogong were excessively romantic about the value of China’s traditions; even speak-for-the-people heroes like Liu Binyan were too ready to pin hopes on “libe
  
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